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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

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(Zool.)

A division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming.

Schizopoda

(archaic) A taxonomic division within the class Malacostraca – later split into the distinct orders Mysidacea and Euphausiacea.